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...captain; John L. Dampeer of Cleveland, Ohio, Conant Prize Scholar and basketball captain; Hume Dow, of Staten Island, New York; Aldrich Durant, Jr. of Cambridge; John MacD. Graham of New York City; John Hay of New York City; Arthur N. Levine of New York City; Philip T. Shahan of Clayton, Missouri; and Paul R. Vogt of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Conant Prize Scholar...
...Clayton Knight, illustrator of aviation stories: "The sooner we can find something to put the skids under it the better...
...Delaware, the House of Representatives voted 22-to-12 to endorse Governor C. (for Clayton) Douglass Buck for the Presidential nomination. An in-law of the du Ponts who rule the State, quiet, handsome Governor Buck reciprocated by recommending that Legislators raise their daily pay from $10 to $20. No one seriously expected tiny Delaware to win a Presidential nomination; the legislature's move was chiefly a precautionary one to tie up to a "favorite...
Every molecule of pure "heavy water" contains two atoms of deuterium, which is hydrogen of the double-weight form identified in 1931 by Columbia's Harold Clayton Urey. Deuterium is not rare in nature. It is present in ordinary water to the extent of one part in 4,500.* Thus when suitable methods for separating it were worked out, high concentrations of heavy water became common. Nowadays one or two chemical manufacturers list and sell heavy water 99.5% pure...
...Author. Thomas Clayton Wolfe's career closely parallels that of his hero, Eugene Gant. Born in Asheville, N. C. in 1900, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at 19, then took an M.A. at Harvard, where he studied under the late Professor George Pierce Baker in his famed 47 Workshop. After traveling and studying in Europe he got a job as instructor in the English department at New York University. Five years ago he resigned to devote himself to his magnum opus, went to Europe again on a Guggenheim Fellowship. An omnivorous reader, he says...